Mar 2019

The Ice Age Journeys project, run by a community group since 2012, has been researching the archaeology of the Ice Age site between present-day Newark and Farndon since 2012. In 2018 we won Heritage Lottery Funding, with our partners at Bradgate Park (Leicestershire) and Creswell Crags (Nottinghamshire), to explore the idea of people moving into and through the region’s landscape as part of wider pattern of movement in search of key resources: meat for food, and bone/hides, wood and flint…

Apr 2019

Dr Crook, formerly of The National archives at Kew, gives a presentation on the First Siege of Newark in July 1218. Following the death of King John at Newark Castle in 1216, this turbulent period of English history saw two local dramatic events: the Battle of Lincoln in 1217 and the siege of Newark in July 1218. At our talk, presented just 801 years after the main event, Dr Crook will talk about these important events